Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

Edna Ferber

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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn

Robert Frost

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

Ernest Hemingway

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I am really very grateful for this Award. It is one of the first given to a woman, and to two women at that. When I first started getting work published, I used to have wistful thoughts at the way all important awards were given to men. Women, I used to think, could be as innovative, imaginative and productive as possible - and women were the ones mostly at work in the field of fantasy for children and young adults - but only let a man enter the field, and people instantly regarded what he had to say and what he did as more Important. He got respectful reviews as well as awards, even if what he was doing - which it often was - was imitating the women. But you have changed all that.
Thank you for being so enlightened.
Women, large-minded, formidable women, have played an almost exclusive part in helping my career. I have hardly ever dealt with a man - at least, when it came to publishing:

Diana Wynne Jones

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A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Orhan Pamuk

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It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

Christopher Paolini

Mots clés on-writing immortality



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Stories are about secrets. We all have them. Secret dreams, fantasies, hopes and sometimes even desires. Occasionally a dream becomes reality and then maybe there are a million reasons for not telling anybody about it.

Rob Hopcott

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

Mark Twain

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Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

Maureen Johnson

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

Mark Twain

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